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issues:
  - |
    Nova's use of libvirt's compareCPU() API served its purpose over the
    years, but its design limitations break live migration in subtle
    ways. For example, the compareCPU() API compares against the host
    physical CPUID. Some of the features from this CPUID aren not
    exposed by KVM, and then there are some features that KVM emulates
    that are not in the host CPUID. The latter can cause bogus live
    migration failures.

    With QEMU >=2.9 and libvirt >= 4.4.0, libvirt will do the right
    thing in terms of CPU compatibility checks on the destination host
    during live migration. Nova satisfies these minimum version
    requirements by a good margin. So, this workaround provides a way to
    skip the CPU comparison check on the destination host before
    migrating a guest, and let libvirt handle it correctly.

    This workaround will be deprecated and removed once Nova replaces
    the older libvirt APIs with their newer counterparts. The work is
    being tracked via this `blueprint
    cpu-selection-with-hypervisor-consideration`_.

    .. _blueprint cpu-selection-with-hypervisor-consideration: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/cpu-selection-with-hypervisor-consideration